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Zoë Buhrmaster’s Journalist Portfolio

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Helen Gordon Center fails to call 911 for injured child

Helen Gordon Center fails to call 911 for injured child

Rachel Jones answered her phone around 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2023. The call came from Helen Gordon Child Dev…

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Protest at PSU administration building lead to lawsuits

Protest at PSU administration building lead to lawsuits

Protesters lined up, sat down and linked arms at the entrance to the Richard & Maurine Neuberger Center’s (RM…

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The Police

The Police

Just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, May 2, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) cars drove onto the Portland State campus…

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Kotek signs bills rolling back drug decriminalization

Kotek signs bills rolling back drug decriminalization

Drug decriminalization finished its short-lived term in Oregon after Governor Tina Kotek signed two bills on …

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Bomb threat at NASCC

Bomb threat at NASCC

Jade Wolfe picked up the phone at 1:51 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, with her typical posed entry line as a front …

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PSU releases annual Oregon houselessness report

PSU releases annual Oregon houselessness report

Portland State’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC) released its annual report on Oregon’s h…

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Seeing Triples - Vanguard

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By Anish Arumugam, Vaishnavi Srinath, Zoë Buhrmaster, Isaiah Burns
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One morning while out for a jog, I noticed something strange in the sky—two radiant patches of light hovering beside the rising sun, shimmering like a second pair of suns on either side. I rubbed my eyes, thinking they might be playing tricks on me, but the lights didn’t waver. That was when I realized: this wasn’t an illusion—it was an atmospheric phenomenon called a sundog. These luminous spots are no supernatural occurrence but rather a stunning atmospheric phenomenon.
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Community & Wellness Resources

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By Milo Loza, Anna Leclerc, J.M. Vincent, Zoë Buhrmaster
| Portland State Vanguard Verified
Happening Soon Live at Lunch SMSU Parkway North Nov. 19, 12 p.m. Free for Students Live music performances at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Y/OURS Lincoln Hall, Boiler Room Studio Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m. Y/OURS: Tending Gratitude and Other Acts of (Radical) Subversion—a performance by PSU students. Babette’s Feast 5th Avenue Cinema Nov. 22, 6 p.m. Free for Students A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of an exquisite meal.
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PSU activists go on hunger strike during ‘Week of Rage’

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By Noah Carandanis, Macie Harreld, Zoë Buhrmaster, Isaiah Burns
| Portland State Vanguard Verified
16 hours. 24 hours. 120 hours. These hours mark the period of time that the PSU Disarm and Divest Coalition activists have committed to going on hunger strike. Hunger strikes are a form of protest by which strikers refuse food for various amounts of time in order to bring attention to a usually political cause.
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Awards

AAJA Diversity and Inclusion Award

2024 - Politics

The awards recognized outstanding journalism published during 2023 about issues that, through discrimination or structural inequity, disproportionately affect people of color or other under-resourced groups in Oregon and/or southwest Washington. The Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association honored 11 professional and student journalists as winners in the 2024 AAJA Diversity and Inclusion Awards competition.

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Wilma Morrison Award

2024 - Outstanding Journalistic Writing

PSU Student Activities and Leadership Programs presents the Wilma Morrison Award to Zoë Buhrmaster and Isaiah Burns in recognition of their article "The Police" in the Vanguard on May 20, 2024.

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